Makoto Senoo

biography

Dr. Makoto Senoo received his Master degree in Biomedical Engineering from Keio University in Japan in 1994 and his PhD in Medicine from Tokai University School of Medicine in 2002, followed by postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 2002-2007. Since 2007, Dr. Senoo has been an Assistant professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. His lab focuses on intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of homeostasis and diseases in epithelia, with a long-term goal of developing stem cell-based therapeutic options.

Area of Interest

Mechanisms controlling self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation of stem cells; intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of stem cells and niche; role of stem cells during development, homeostasis, regeneration and disease; generation of mutant mice as models for stem cell-mediated diseases; development of therapeutic strategies in regenerative medicine